supplantation
English edit
Etymology edit
- supplant + -ation
- Contrast French supplantation, Latin supplantatio (“hypocritical deceit”)
Noun edit
supplantation (countable and uncountable, plural supplantations)
- The act of supplanting.
- c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Measure for Measure
- Habitual supplantation of immediate selfishness.
- c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Measure for Measure
- The condition of having been displaced.
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French edit
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
supplantation f (plural supplantations)
Further reading edit
- “supplantation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.